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  • Third party service monitoring is now in the API, MCP and CLI.

    We’re happy to announce that you can set up Third party service monitoring from the UptimeRobot API, MCP server and CLI too, and get alerted when a service your product depends on has an outage. Add a provider from your deploy pipeline, ask your AI assistant whether Stripe had an incident last night, or check […]

  • The Top 12+ Open Source Monitoring Tools in 2026

    Open source website monitoring tools give organizations greater control over how they monitor websites, servers, applications, and infrastructure. They can reduce licensing costs, offer extensive customization, and integrate with existing workflows, but they also require more time to deploy, maintain, and scale than managed alternatives. We’ll compare some of the best open source website […]

  • Community Spotlight: Soexya Khatiwada

    Soexya Khatiwada was midway through answering questions from a potential buyer when he changed his mind about selling GreenPing, the status page tool he’d built for small software teams. Another project of his had just been wiped out overnight. It lived entirely on someone else’s platform, and there was no warning or opportunity to appeal. […]

  • Community Spotlight: Dmitry Prozorovsky

    Dmitry Prozorovsky is a freelance automation developer based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He builds n8n-based automation and AI agent systems for small businesses, handling everything from order tracking and pricing to customer support. Over the past year and a half, one of those projects has grown into something much bigger. Dmitry has been building and maintaining […]

  • Show off your uptime with SLA badges.

    Your uptime is probably better than your customers think. But the proof sits in your UptimeRobot dashboard, where only your team can see it. Starting today, you can put it on your website. SLA badges let you set an uptime target for your monitors, then embed a live badge that shows the uptime you actually […]

  • Community Spotlight: Howard Spaeth

    What do you do with an iPad that’s sitting unused on your desk? If you’re Howard Spaeth, you turn it into a dashboard for everything that might need your attention. Howard runs a web design agency focused on WordPress and has been using UptimeRobot for as long as he can remember. But UptimeRobot isn’t the […]

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